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Angenehmer Duft, in English "pleasant smell", is the sun piercing through the leaves of a tree, its fleeting light surfing the breeze carrying tar and gas; it is the piano bench one pries open with a squeak, revealing ragtimes and ballads proudly scuffling, winning over ageism; it is the subtle pungency of the pillow we rest a tired head on the night following the one a lover kissed good night; it is "fragile", has "vitality", is "unsubstantial" and bears "unfaltering, in the tiny but impalpable drop of [its] essence, the vast structure of recollection", in the words of Marcel Proust (La recherche du temps perdu).

The words "Angenehmer Duft", these black-on-white capital letters on a condom box at the Berlin porn cinema where Rémy used to work turned out to be quite inspiring. Like Patrick Süskind's Grenouille (Das Parfum), he sought out to reproduce in his own way something diffuse, somewhat bewitching but humble : einen angenehmen Duft.

The cello piece was improvised and recorded on March 16, 2016 at the WAVE Akademie für Digitale Medien, Berlin. The recording was sent to Félix-Antoine Morin, just back in Montreal after a residency in Germany, who turns it on this album into a personal work evocative of his most recent concerns, using here the cello piece as his unique input source to manipulate, rework, transcend.